Category: 2 Corinthians
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The Gullible
2 Corinthians 11:4 “For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.” Are you gullible? Surely, no one wants to think that…
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The Devil’s Ways
2 Corinthians 11:3 “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” The devil has been at work to deceive the human race ever since the time of Eve. Interestingly, his methods haven’t changed much in all that time. From Genesis…
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A True Apostle
2 Corinthians 10:18 “For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.” What’s the difference between a false teacher and a true godly leader? It’s something that the apostle Paul dealt with in the first century, as we can see in his statement above, and it’s something…
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A Spiritual Defense
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” Opinions: everybody has them. One dictionary defines an “opinion” as “a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based…
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The Indescribable Giver
2 Corinthians 9:15 “Thanks be to God for His inexpressible gift!” As Paul concludes his lengthy discourse on the subject of giving in his letter to the Corinthian church, he exults with the wonderful statement, “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.” Of course, that gift is the gift of His own Son, “For…
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A Faith that Gives
2 Corinthians 8:10 “And in this matter (of giving) I give my judgment: this benefits you” It is interesting that that apostle Paul gives so much emphasis to the matter of giving in his second letter to the Corinthians. He spends all of chapters 8 and 9 talking about it. He talks about the generosity of the…
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Stopping Short
2 Corinthians 8:7 “But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.” One of the things that can happen to us as we follow Christ is to think that by knowing what is right, we are…
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Above and Beyond
2 Corinthians 8:1-5 “We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond…
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Wealth
2 Corinthians 8:1-2 “We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.” When you think of the word “wealth,” what do your thoughts…
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Living Water
2 Corinthians 7:13 “We rejoiced . . . at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.” One of the signs of a healthy church is the effect that that church has on those who visit it. We see this in the verse above which speaks of Titus’ visit to the…
To Encourage You 